The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no l...
The great uncertainty I found in metaphysical reasonings disgusted me, and I quitted that kind of reading and study for others more satisfactory. What
The good painter has to paint two principal things, man and the intention of his mind, he wrote. The first is easy and the second is difficult, because the latter has to be represented through gesture...
The fifteenth century of Leonardo and Columbus and Gutenberg was a time of invention, exploration, and the spread of knowledge by new technologies. In short, it was a time like our own. That is why we...
The digital age could not become truly transformational until computers became truly personal.
The compensation issue in some ways echoed Jobs’s parking quirk. He refused such trappings as having a Reserved for CEO spot, but he assumed for himself the right to park in the handicapped spaces. He...
The company had not only a new logo, but a new name. No longer was it Next. It was NeXT. Others might not have understood the need to obsess over a logo, much less pay $ 100,000 for one. But for Jobs...
The combination of GNU and Linux created an operating system that has been ported to more hardware platforms, ranging from the world’s ten biggest supercomputers to embedded systems in mobile phones,...
The Pirates Abandon Ship Upon his return from Europe in August 1985, while he was casting about for what to
The Ottoman Turks were about to capture Constantinople, unleashing on Italy a migration of fleeing scholars with bundles of manuscripts containing the ancient wisdom of Euclid, Ptolemy, Plato, and Ari...
The Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.
The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything, she wrote in her Notes. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It can follow analysis; but it has no power of a...
That goes a step too far, I think. Leonardo did not invent the scientific method, nor did Aristotle or Alhazen or Galileo or any Bacon. But his uncanny abilities to engage in the dialogue between expe...
That Tuesday afternoon, he kept staring into his children’s eyes. At one point he looked at Patty and his children for a long time, then at Laurene, and finally gazed past them into the distance. Oh w...
TIM COOK. Steady, calm, chief operating officer hired by Jobs in 1998; replaced Jobs as Apple CEO in August 2011.
Striving for social justice is the most valuable thing to do in life.27
Steve, can I talk to you? she said. His jaw dropped. Do you have any idea what a privilege it has been even to know someone as fine as John Sculley? she demanded. He averted his gaze. Can’t you look m...
Steve had a TEAC reel-to-reel and massive quantities of Dylan bootlegs, Kottke recalled. He was both really cool and high-tech.
Steve created the only lifestyle brand in the tech industry, Larry Ellison said.
Steve and I spent a lot of time on the packaging, said Ive. I love the process of unpacking something. You design a ritual of unpacking to make the product feel special. Packaging can be theater, it...